Every western movie streaming on Crave in Canada right now — 23 films ranked by rating, checked against Crave’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Crave CA
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTarantino weaponizes the western's moral reckoning with slavery, making genre violence politically consequential.
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Directed by Joel Coen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChigurh's coin-flip morality replaces the gunslinger code, making this neo-western about the genre's obsolescence in modern lawlessness.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Directed by Clint Eastwood
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMunny's transformation from killer to farmer and back subverts the western hero myth with tragic moral ambiguity.
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Directed by David Mackenzie
✦ MovieMuse AI takeModern economic desperation replaces outlawry; the bank heist becomes a working-class tragedy.
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAffectionate pastiche that respects western tropes while mining them for sci-fi comedy.
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
Directed by Daniel Minahan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMilch's Shakespearean ensemble returns to camp as elegy for the frontier's linguistic and moral erosion.
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
Directed by Yves Simoneau
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRare dual perspective shatters the Western's traditional white viewpoint through Sioux witness.
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Directed by Christopher Cain
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBilly the Kid's descent interrogates youthful rebellion against paternal authority figures.
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
Directed by D.J. Caruso
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGold Rush setting grounds romantic idealism against brutal frontier realities and systemic exploitation of women.
A young couple's relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. Angel, experiencing love for the first time and facing demons unsurmountable, runs from the new life she doesn't believe she deserves. When Michael sets out to find her, Angel discovers that she indeed has the power to choose the life she wants.
Directed by John Badham
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDeconstructs frontier justice mythology by showing how personal vengeance replaces failed legal systems—the western's moral core.
When the law fails to punish a fellow rancher that has abused his horses, a Wyoming horse trader sacrifices it all in a quest for justice.
Directed by Ari Aster
✦ MovieMuse AI takeContemporary western confronts neighbor-versus-neighbor division; genre reflects modern political fracture.
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.
Directed by Bruce Beresford
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMetafilm brilliance: revolution itself becomes cinematic spectacle, collapsing history and image.
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.
Directed by Ray Patterson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnimates the classic pursuit narrative across borderlands, where the lawman's dogged chase defines the genre's ritualistic confrontation.
The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada.
Directed by Carlyle Eubank
✦ MovieMuse AI takeContemporary rodeo setting preserves western's exploration of masculine decline and the fading American frontier myth.
A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficult to achieve his dreams.
Directed by Peter Markle
✦ MovieMuse AI takePedagogy subverted: teacher becomes student of outlaw masculinity, reversing moral authority.
When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowboy skills of his own, he signs on a speedy gunslinger and a no-nonsense cowboy to help. Now, Smith may just have a chance at capturing his man: the merciless bandit El Diablo.
Directed by Tony Tost
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLeverages cultural artifact as catalyst, centering Indigenous perspective in a genre historically built on erasure.
When a rare Lakota Ghost Shirt falls into the black market in a small town in South Dakota, the lives of local outsiders and outcasts violently intertwine.
Directed by Richard Gray
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEmploys execution-eve confession to explore cyclical violence and masculine legacy in post-Civil War decay.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1870s Montana, in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway, he gives his estranged son, Henry, an impossible task: murder the man who framed him for a crime he didn’t commit. Intent on fulfilling his promise, Henry travels to the remote town of Trinity, where an unexpected turn of events traps him in town and leaves him caught between Gabriel Dove, the town’s upstanding new sheriff, and a mysterious figure named St. Christopher.
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSteampunk gadgetry betrays the western's aesthetic; retrofuturism undermines the genre's essential simplicity and historical grounding.
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.
Directed by Stuart Margolin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReplaces gunfights with real-estate battles; strips away genre conventions entirely, leaving only the setting's hollow shell.
Twin sisters help a woman save her dude ranch from developers who would like to turn the property into a theme park.
Directed by Audrey Cummings
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIsolates ranching families against criminal intrusion—primal survival drama that reclaims the western's authentic frontier vulnerability.
On a remote ranch, a mother and her daughter fight for survival when a wounded outlaw seeking refuge brings a notorious bank robber and his ruthless gang, all desperate to reclaim a stolen fortune, right to their doorstep.
Directed by Geoff Murphy
✦ MovieMuse AI takePost-Civil War exhaustion: former soldiers ghosting through aftermath—the West as trauma landscape.
The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff, had once been a heroic and staunch supporter of the Southern cause, but after losing his family, he became coldhearted and ruthless. His second-in-command is Eustis, whom Graff has trained on the strategies of leadership and combat command.
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCasts sorceress as frontier antihero navigating lawless wilderness, reimagining the western's lonely wanderer.
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight both man and demon.
Directed by Brian Skiba
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransplants gunslinger mythology eastward into Kentucky, testing whether the outlaw archetype transcends its western geography.
When the most wanted man in America surfaces in a small Kentucky town, his violent history -- and a blood-thirsty mob seeking vengeance and a king’s ransom -- soon follow. As brothers face off against one another and bullets tear the town to shreds, this lightning-fast gunslinger makes his enemies pay the ultimate price for their greed.
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